Historicizing Uses of Past: Scandinavian Perspectives on History Culture, Historical Consciousness, and Didactics of History Related to World War II

✍ Scribed by Helle Bjerg (editor), Claudia Lenz (editor), Erik Thorstensen (editor)

• Publisher: transcript
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 300
• Series: Time - Meaning - Culture 6
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents new developments in Scandinavian memory cultures related to World War II and the Holocaust by combining this focus with the perspective of history didactics. The theoretical framework of historical consciousness offers an approach linking individual and collective uses and re-uses of the past to the question how history can and should be taught. It also offers some examples of good practice in this field. The book promotes a teaching practice which, in taking the social constructivist notions of historical consciousness as a starting point, can contribute to self-reflecting and critical thinking -- being fundamental for any democratic political culture.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
I CASES OF NATIONAL HISTORY CULTURES
Representations of Victims and Guilty in Public History. The Case of the Finnish Civil War in 1918 • Sirkka Ahonen
The Holocaust as History Culture in Finland • Tom Gullberg
The Nazi Camps in the Norwegian Historical Culture • Jon Reitan
The Norwegian Fascist Monument at Stiklestad 1944-45 • Tor Einar Fagerland and Trond Risto Nilssen
The Holocaust and Memory Culture: the Case of Sweden
• Kristian Gerner
Small and Moral Nations.Europe and the Emerging Politics of Memory • Cecilie Felicia Stokholm Banke
II HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN HISTORY DIDACTICS
Processing Time – On the Manifestations and Activations of Historical Consciousness • Klas-Göran Karlsson
German History Didactics: From Historical Consciousness to Historical Competencies – and Beyond? • Andreas Körber
Coping with Burdening History
• Bodo von Borries
III THE MEDIATION OF HISTORY IN PRACTICE
Exhibiting the War. Approaches to World War II in Museums and Exhibitions • Ola Svein Stugu
World War II at 24 Frames a Second – Scandinavian Examples • Ulf Zander
Historical Propaganda and New Popular Cultural Medial Expressions • Erik Thorstensen
The Culture of Memory in the “Grandchildren Generation” in Denmark • Helle Bjerg
Strengthening Narrative Competence by Diversification of (Hi)stories • Claudia Lenz
How to Examine the (Self-)Reflective Effects of History Teaching • Bodo von Borries
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